Free printable solar system planet worksheets for kindergarten, grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3 kids. Drawing, diagram and coloring these planets of the solar system worksheet give strong knowledge about the variations and properties of planets.
Teaching solar system to kids
It’s pretty simple!.
Solar system is consists of our sun, stars and objects go around it (orbit). It includes eight planets and their moons, as well as asteroids, comets, and dwarf planets.
- The Sun – The Sun is an extremely hot, glowing ball of gas at the center of the solar system, and it provides us with heat and light.
- Rocky planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are known as the rocky planets. They are all solid spheres made almost entirely of rock and metal.
- Asteroid belt – Asteroids are lumps of rock from 3 ft (1 meter) to a few hundred miles across. Most orbit the Sun in a region called the asteroid belt.
- Giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are called gas giants because they are made mostly of helium and hydrogen. They are much bigger than the rocky planets, and they orbit the Sun more slowly.
- Dwarf planets – Dwarf planets, such as Pluto, are much smaller than the rocky planets. Their gravity is only just strong enough to make them form a spherical shape.
- Comets – These lumps of rock, ice, and dust usually orbit in the solar system’s outer regions, but occasionally they pass closer to the Sun and heat up, producing bright tails.
How to memorize the order of the planets in the solar system?
There are lots of tricks available throughout internet and easily you can use it. But we personally refer love this below sentence to tech order of the planets.
“My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles”
- My – Mercury
- Very – Venus
- Educated – Earth
- Mother – Mars
- Just – Jupiter
- Served – Saturn
- Us – Uranus
- Noodles – Neptune
We created 11 free solar system planet worksheets on coloring, drawing, word search puzzle, crossword puzzle, fill in the blanks, choose the correct answers and match order of the planets in pdf format.
The solar system pictures help kids to do coloring and find the differences of the planets. To improve vocabulary we add missing letters unscramble words on planet names.
To learn the order of the planets, we add match the order of the planets worksheets as well.
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